venture capital

Early-Stage Startups Alive and Kicking in Q3, Venture Funding Shows

In the middle of a venture capital funding slump, you might think that early stage investments would be the hardest hit--VC dollars would be siphoned away from early-stage deals and poured into existing portfolio companies ...READ»

A Tale of Two Pitches

How you get to the VC is important, but once you're in the meeting, it's obviously up to you to make the most of it.READ»

Venture Capital: Don't Call It a Comeback

Venture funds may be having trouble raising new funding, but they are still investing what money they have. The third quarter of 2009 saw venture capital activity hit $6.1B, a healthy 14% increase in venture capital activity over Q2 ...READ»

• 2009 Q3 Venture Capital Activity Report

Five Qualities Venture Capital Firms Look For in Startups

Venture Capital is a term oft-bandied about, but sometimes it's a mysterious process. Speaking at Stanford University, Beth Seidenberg of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers tried to clear up a aspect: Whether a startup is ...READ»

Twitter's Investors Missed the Cluetrain - Here's Why

Twitter, the microblogging service that changed everything, hasn't changed all that much argue the four co-authors of The Cluetrain ManifestoREAD»

Mind the Gap

“Mind the Gap please!” The question is how can we shrink this gap?READ»

Mind the Gap

“Mind the Gap please!” The question is, how can we shrink this gap?READ»

East versus West Coast

Are we really so different in East versus West coast towns of America? Why is it so? Read more to find out.READ»

Got Biz Idea? Tweet @Richard Branson 4 Chance 2 Turn in 2 Real Company

The whole business of startups is getting interesting--first we have YCombinator's back-to-front VC funding, and now there's news Richard Branson is accepting "micropitches" via Twitter for new startup ideas. It's all part of a new ...READ»

Fancy Doing a Startup? YCombinator Has a Business Plan for You

The venture capital scene is going a bit topsy turvy at the moment, but now YCombinator, which provides seed funding for startups, is turning the whole concept of funding on its head: They are giving out ideas and looking for ...READ»

Did the Venture Capital Crunch Force Zappos-Amazon Deal? [Updated]

Amazon's purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos was surprising and interesting news all by itself, but now comes a twist: reports that this marriage made in e-commerce heaven may have been a shotgun wedding forced by Zappos' ...READ»

Venture Capital Slows to a Trickle

It's well know that VC funds take their economic hits with a delay because they work in liquid money, but it seems like their time of reckoning for the great bust of '08 has finally come. VentureBeat reports that new data from the ...READ»

How the Tech Boom Terminated California's Economy

While the pundits point to real estate speculation and bank insolvencies as the chief cause of California--and the nation's--financial distress, these are both direct results of the late 90's explosion of computer innovation and Internet proliferation. That's right: The Internet crashed the economy.READ»

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz Launch $300 Million Venture Fund

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who first teamed more than a decade ago on a start-up Internet shop known as Netscape, are launching their own venture capital firm, cleverly titled Andreessen Horowitz. Starting with a $300 million ...READ»

Launch: Silicon Valley 2009

Starting a tech business in good times takes guts--more than 60% of new ones fail in four recession-free years. These days, you need courage, chutzpah, and an extra measure of je ne sais quoi. A chance to woo investors helps; ...READ»

UC Davis's Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy

Professor Andrew Hargadon believes energy efficiency can be sexy -- and he's winning fans at Chevron, Samsung, and Wal-Mart, and in Silicon Valley.READ»

• Infographic: Energy Stars

Bringing Dollars and Know-How to Design Studios

Can venture capital do for architects and decorators what it did for Silicon Valley?READ»

A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan Competition

Quick, pretend you’re in an elevator with the venture capitalist of your dreams. You have two minutes to pitch your kookiest business plan and hope it strikes gold in this competition. And if it does, you might end up launching a ...READ»

Twitter Starts to Sing For its Supper, Targets Businesses for Cash

"News: Popular social networking novelty Twitter is to try to earn some revenue by aiming at businesses with expanded feature set that costs." That's essentially the news today about Twitter, squeezed into a 140-character ...READ»

Second Life Still Gets Great Press, Even When It's Dying

With the art world imploding alongside the economy, we could all use an inspired feel-good-art-is-still-alive story. But to describe Second Life--which has about 65,000 users logged on at any given time--as the zeitgeist of the art ...READ»

The World's Richest Men, Betting on Green

The world's canniest investors and business minds aren't letting the green revolution slip past them; they're ponying up cash, hoping to fund alternative energy startups and eco-solutions that might one day remake the market. What ...READ»

How to Predict a Start-up's Success? Quantify its Buzz

Anyone trying to wade through a site like TechCrunch, hoping for a bird's eye view of start-up activity, has probably left unsatisfied. There's simply too much unsorted information. YouNoodle aims to change that, and it just ...READ»

ChubbyBrain Makes Information/Insights about Startups and Investors More Accessible

We often hear and know intuitively that our future depends on the energy of entrepreneurs and the investors that back them coming up with brilliant ideas that solve our problems - both big and small. Yet amazingly, information and ...READ»

VC Funding and Innovation

It seems that even in innovation, there is some wisdom to be gained from the tortoise and the hare. READ»

No, The Internet Is Not More Popular Than Sex

A survey released by Intel [INTC] on Monday says that more people would be willing to give up sex than be without Internet access. It's interesting, but it's just not true. News outlets from CNN to The Australian have been reporting ...READ»